Price tag and holder



April, 1924-. 1,490,828

B. HURLEY PRICE TAG AND HOLDER Miam- Jam. 8, 1924 Patented Apr. 15,1924.

UNITED STATES.

ALBERT B. HURLEY, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

PRICE TAG- AND HOLDER.

Application filed January 8, 1924. Serial No. 684,980

T 0 all whom 2'6 may concern:

Be it known. that 1, ALBERT B. HURLEY, a citizen of the United States,residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Price Tags andHolders, of which the following is a specification, reference being hadtherein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to display or price tags or cards, and the holderstherefor, with special reference to such devices as are employed in selfservice establishments. In such establishments the requirements are manyand varied, as each bin or compartment for every item must be plainlymarked or priced. Changes of price are very frequent. The goods arehandled by the public. Each store requires a great many tags, whichmakes simplicity and efficiency important. Each tag must be heldsecurely but not rigidly. If struck by a customer or clerk whilehandling goods, it must swing or give instead of being bent or broken bythe blow. This feature is an important one. The holder must be shapedand must operate in such a manner as to obviate any danger of cuttingthe hands or tearing the clothing of one coming in contact with it. Tagsmust be easily inserted and easily removed by an authorized person, suchasa clerk in a store,

. but only with difiiculty by unauthorized persons. As a great number oftags are used, the appearance and manner of assembly are important, andthe holders and tags must both be so constructed as to maintainalignment and parallelism in general.

It is the object of my invention to produce a tag and a holder thereforthat will meet the requirements thus stated, and that will be animprovement in divers respects, sufficiently apparent from the detaileddescription hereinafter, over the devices now in use.

Briefly stated, I attain my objects as follows: I provide a metal platewith a central tongue punched out and formed up, being first bent outand away from the plate and then returned into a round hook proportionedso that its tip tends to project through the slot left by cutting out ofthe tongue and press against any surface to which the plate is attached.A prong or holding point is punched out of the plate on each side of thecentral slot. A rectangular card is used, the edges of which are eitherbevelled or round ed and near the upper edge of which an elongated slotwith sufficient width to receive the tongue is formed. This gives both asimple and an efficient holder. The tags are held securely and yet hangfrom the tongue I so as to swing back and forth and not be bent orbroken if struck. There are no sharp edges or corners to damage personsor clothing coming in contact with tags or holders. The constructionthus described allows the tags to be easily inserted and easily removedby authorized persons, but makes them difficult of removal byunauthorized persons; The tags and holders all being uniform inconstruction and manner of assembly, alignment and parallelism ingeneral are maintained.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which Fig. 1is a front View of the holder.

Fig. 2 is a side view of the same.

Fig. 3 is a front View of the holder attached to a surface and showingthe mode of inserting the tag.

Fig. 4: is a front view of the holder attached to a surface and showingthe mode of removing the tag.

Fig. 5 is a front view of a modified form of the invention.

Fig. 6 is a side view of the same, and

Fig. 7 is a front view of the modified form attached to a surface andwith the tag in place.

Referring to the drawings, and particularly to Figs. 1 and 2, A is aplate of metal having a central tongue, (1-, punched out and formed upinto a holder, being first bent out and away from the plate and thenhaving its end a returned into a round hook so proportioned that its tipwill tend to project through the slot left by the cutting out of thetongue, and to press against any surface to which the plate is attached,the metal beingpreferably resilient for this purpose. On eachside of thecentral slot left by the tongue, a prong or holding point a is alsopunched out of the metal plate and formed up to stand perpendicular tothe same. The relation of the various parts as thus constructed will beunderstood from Figs. 1 and 2.

To cooperate with this holder I employ a card or tag. constructed asshown in Figs. 3 and 4. B is the body of the card, which may be of metalsuch as aluminum, or of card board, or of wood, or other material.

The body is rectangular, and the edges are either bevelled or roundedfor the purpose hereinbefore stated. Near the upper edge is formed anelongated slot, of sufficient width to receive the tongue at on theholder.

The operation of the device thus described is as follows: The holder isattached to the edge or front surface of a shelf or bin, so that the tipof the tongue or hook a rests in the plane of its base or supportingplate, and preferably so that said tip is pressed against the carryingsurface. The card B as shown in Fig. 3, is then inserted from below,pushing its upper edge behind the hook and lifting the same so that itstip slides over the surface of the card until it reaches the slot. Thecard is then drawn down a little, when the hook will pass through theslot from the front to rear thereof, which effectually locks the cardagainst removal. The hook being solid in front of the card, has theappearance of a complete loop, and removal of the card without aotualmutilation would be impossible for an uninstructed person.

To remove the card, it is pushed up until its body below the slot passesbehind and beneath the hook, lifting the same so that its tip rests onsaid body, which may then be moved horizontally to right or left, anddetached from the hook by laterally sliding from under it.

Figs. 5, 6, and 7 show the base or support 0, andthe same hook at, butwithout the body operation of the hook however and the attachment ordetachment of a card or tag are the same as in Figs. 1, 2, and 3.

Having thus described my invention what I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent isf 1. Means for holding tags, cards or the likecomprising a metal base having a tongue out out of and formed upintegral therewith, slanting downwardly and out: wardly and returned orcurved inwardly and upwardly at its end so that its tip will presstightly against the surface to which the base is attached, forming aninwardly turned hook, together with a card or tag slotted at its upperend to receive and hang freely on said hook.

2. The combination of a holder comprising a fiat resilient metal tonguesecured at one end to a base surface and thence bent outwardly from saidbase and returned or curved inwardly and upwardly so that its tip willpress tightly against the base behind the body of the tongue, forming aninwardly turned hook and a card or tag having a solid body provided witha slot of such shape and dimensions as to fit said hook and hang freelythereon.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature.

ALBERT B. HURLEY.

